Term: Anglophone
Last Updated: 2012-06-21
The word Anglophone generally means an English-speaking person. Statistics Canada uses Anglophone to mean someone whose mother tongue is English, that is, the first language learned at home in childhood and still understood at the time of the Census. ( Source: Corbeil JP, Chavez B, & Pereira D. Portrait of Official-Language Minorities in Canada - Anglophones in Quebec. Statistics Canada. 2010. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/89-642-x/89-642-x2010002-eng.pdf - accessed February 22, 2011).